{"id":474414,"date":"2026-03-14T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:40:16","slug":"bahrain-and-saudi-arabia-gps-to-be-cancelled-amid-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474414\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs to be cancelled amid Middle East war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix that were scheduled for next month are set to be cancelled as a result of the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A formal decision to call off the races has not yet been made but is expected before the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freight would need to start being shipped to the Middle East in the coming days. With no sign of the conflict between the US\/Israel and Iran coming to a conclusion, holding the races would put personnel at too great a risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neither event will be replaced, with the season being cut to 22 grands prix and F1 taking a commercial hit of more than \u00a3100m, given Bahrain and Saudi Arabia pay two of the highest hosting fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The race in Bahrain was scheduled to be on 12 April with Jeddah the following weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consideration was given to holding events at Portimao in Portugal, Imola in Italy or Istanbul Park in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was accepted that the time to organise a race at any of those locations was too short, and there was little chance of securing a hosting fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision will mean there is a five-week break between the Japanese Grand Prix on 29 March and Miami on 3 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix that were scheduled for next month are set to be cancelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-474414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}